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The hideously misnamed "Equality Act" begins its journey through Congress this week. It's designed "to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation."

Now the 1964 Civil Rights Act already makes it illegal for discrimination to occur on the basis of "sex," by which the authors of the bill meant "male or female."

One significant thing to note in passing is that the authors of this bill evidently agree – whether they realize it or not – that the CRA of 1964 does NOT provide special protections based on "gender identity" or "sexual orientation," because if the term "sex'"was expansive enough to include both, there would be no need for the Equality Act.

So we should all be able to agree that, while "sex" in the 1964 CRA referred to the division of humanity into males and females, protections were not extended to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. Hence the felt need for the "Equality Act," to address this lacuna in civil rights law.

"Gender identity" contains a raft of problems all by itself, for the category seems limited only by the hyperthyroidal imaginations of gender activists. Facebook allows you to choose from no less than 71 – count 'em – genders. The old "male and female" thing is so last century. Now you can adopt a veritable cornucopia of sexual identities, starting with "asexual," "hermaphrodite," or "intersex," and working your way up to "gender variant" or "pangender."

Mind you, there is no biological or genetic marker for these various departures from the norm – it's all in your head. Which makes the whole concept enormously subjective and fluid, and allows you to slip into it just about anything you want.

But what is truly pernicious is that "sexual orientation" is nowhere defined in the bill. Now everyone has a working definition of "sexual orientation" in their heads, a definition that begins with "male" and ends with "transgender" or some such thing. But "sexual orientation" is not defined anywhere in the bill or anywhere else in federal law. Everyone, including off-the-reservation judges, will get to make up their own definition.

This means that "sexual orientation" will mean anything you want it to mean, INCLUDING PEDOPHILIA OR BESTIALITY.

"According to current research, pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual orientation, just like for example heterosexuality. No one chooses to be a pedophile. No one can cease being one."

Snopes investigated the report of her remarks and found it to be "True." In fact, organizers admitted that "a speaker (at their conference) described pedophilia as a condition some people are born with."

So now we have medical professionals saying pedophiles are born that way, God made them that way, they can't stop being one no matter how hard they try, and if you've got a problem with that, your problem is not with the guy who wants to rape kids but with the God who made them that way.

If the "Equality Act" were to become law, pedophiles would have special privileges and protections under law that you and I would not have. Because religious exemptions are specifically forbidden in the bill, pedophiles could not be prevented by Trail Life USA (the conservative Christian alternative to the Boy Scouts) from becoming leaders of small boys. And if you have a problem with that, you're the one who is going to wind up in jail.

Churches could not prevent pedophiles from working with their children and their youth groups. The Roman Catholic Church could not prevent self-admitted pedophiles from becoming priests and working with altar boys.

It will not be long before bestiality (sex with animals) becomes a protected category. Prostitution will soon follow, as will incest and necrophilia (sex with dead people).

This is what the future holds if this law passes. If you want to keep our country from becoming the Disneyland of Deviancy, it's time to bombard our congressmen with phone calls urging them to vote against the "Equality Act." Why? Because it, in reality, is the "Pedophile Protection Act."

Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer is the host of the daily 'Focal Point' radio talk program on AFR Talk, a division of the American Family Association. 'Focal Point' airs live from 1-3 pm Central Time, and is also simulcast on the AFA Channel, which can be seen on the Sky Angel network.